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Personally, I wouldn't try get 'serious value' out of them. If there are just a couple of these domain names, redirect them to your main site. But focus on getting serious value out of your main site instead. If you have great content for ChairtypeA it should be on your ChairtypeA page, not on a micorsite.

If you gain inbound links, best they point to your main site pages. Not to microsites. You're diluting the potential of ChairtypeA by spreading its content over 2 sites.

We've acquired another company and want to redirect their soon-to-be-obsolete website to ours.

It includes a blog with many blog posts. Should we:

only 301 redirect the top level blog URL
try redirect individual blogs to blogs of a similar topic on our site (least practical I'm sure)
redirect all their individual posts to our main blog URL

Thanks, Caro

I would give my users the option of selecting residential or commercial in a prominent position on the home page AND in the main navigation (under a Products menu item).

That will offer a good user experience and provide clarity regardless of which page they enter the site.

It will also make good sense for SEO as you're catering to two different markets and can address them as such from and SEO point of view.

Thank you Erica, that confirms my suspicions.

Is your service/product offered internationally? If so, it would be appropriate.

If not, how 'loosely' do those sites relate to yours? If you share a common target audience/common theme, the links could still be valuable. If those sites have the potential to send you relevant visitors (in addition to link weight), they have value.

If they come from decent websites, at very worst they won't harm you.

~Caro

Thank You Gyorgy,

Our long term plan is to have a complete German Website optimized for german and on a german domain. But my client was hoping that, in the meantime, we could get our english pages found in Germany, and without risking our USA SEO achievements.

I think I already know the answer to this, but I'd love a second opinion.

If you add German meta data to some web pages will it help those pages turn up in search results in Germany?I'm assuming not. It's an English, USA based site, doing well here for English searches - and I don't want to mess that up.

A German site is being planned, but this client is hoping the English site could be found in the meantime.

~Caro

Thank you Russ. The site does have some quality backlinks, yet ironically, it doesn't even have a Meta Description.

The SEO company has also included an Author meta tag with a link back to themselves.

I have a client whose competitor has great positions in Google, and a quick look at the meta data revealed this (I removed the company name):

I'd love some opinions on this. My gut feel tells me this is spammy. But all my client sees is that this site is on page 1!

~Caro

Andy have you had any issues with CheckDog slowing your site down?   We've had site speed issues as they are resource intensive. But I'm wondering if it's just us. We don't have that many pages...under 1,000.

Caro

I'm interested to know if this resolved your problem. I'm having the same issue, but with tags. Some of my WordPress blog posts have 4 or 5 tags, and Moz is flagging this as 4 or 5 cases of duplicate content.